The Japanese major television network JNN (and others) reported on its national news today as well as website a hefty diplomatic faux pas by the Obama White House and national security team in advance of White House's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's trip here to Tokyo.

In the White House report and schedule, highlighted on the White House Home Page, they refer to a planned meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister "Yoshiko" (sic) Noda. "Yoshiko" is a common female Japanese name. This had the Japanese scratching their heads with one big massive "WTH?!" (See video)

The actual given name of the Prime Minister of the world third largest economy, Japan, is a male name as the Prime Minister himself is very male. ("Yoshihiko").

This would be akin to a briefing book or press release prepared out of the Prime Minister's Agency in advance of a top official visit to the US, making reference to "Barbara Obama".

Amateurs.

Still.

Wonder if they will have Leaker-In-Chief Donilon engage in the stupid looking feigned Japanese bowing deep with hand extended for handshake-type greetings which is also a social faux pas in Japan and which Obama goofed up over. Or Obama's senior staff three years ago in Tokyo at the Prime Minister Hatoyama's office falling asleep or yawning due to "jet lag". You can't make this stuff up. Will adults ever be in charge again (when it comes to one of the most critical US bilateral foreign relations with a major friendly power)?

Probably not, but if it goes viral from FR, then the MSM will have no choice but to report it. Particularly if it is made a news item for the Monday conservative talk shows reaching millions of listeners. What idiots, those White House morons.

Even Bush would not make an error like this. Will the MSM talk about it NO! Obama is a Perfect President who need not work at the job. He’s a fool—out of his water. This will be made clear in the next few weeks as the debates start.

I’m convinced the current administration fired all of the competent protocol people and hired a team of professional morons.

There is absolutely no excuse to screw up something posted on a website if you have competent protocol people performing reviews. You don’t post the names of friendly foreign leaders without first checking accuracy.

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posted on 07/29/2012 6:37:40 AM PDT
by Rides_A_Red_Horse
(If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)

The video links to Japanese TV news stories usually last no more than 24 hours or so, so I am not surprised that they (JNN/Yahoo) took it down. It is SOP. But it must be archived somewhere; it could be found no doubt. And if not a video, certainly a hard J news story with the key words, "Yoshiko" ヨシコ and "Donilon" ドニロン in paraphrase quotes in Japanese.. They even zeroed in on the National Security briefing book page that had the gall to list the Japanese PM's name as a "female". Diplomatic asshats.

Now it emerges the idiots actually referred to their Prime Minister as "Foreign Minister Noda" as well, but this belongs to Foreign Minister Gemba.

All around, a diplomatic cluster-f is you ask me. Japanese web pages, blogs, etc. are full of it, Google News with the search words for the female name they used for their Prime Minister and NSC's Donilon go on for page after page after page. I do think they have been insulted. It shows there is no quality control in the US foreign policy mechanism, and they are also (again) slighting US allies. Jackwagons.

It shows why happens when you have a bunch of 30 something “intellectual” staffer tools running the show instead of people that actually understand Japanese. My daughter is 8, understands Japanese marginally, but still laughed her ass off at this mistake.

We’ve never had a President this amateur and I’d hate to think what would happen in the event of an actual crisis.

OK. More is coming out now. From Nikkei. The Japanese version of the Wall Street Journal. Soon mainstream MSM in USA will NOT be able to ignore it. I will throw up a link and a quick translation for the Monday morning crowd in the USA (talk show hots, bloggers, Freepers, commentators, political parties and candidates, etc). It could be an excellent way to change the subject and put Obama back on DEFENSIVE about foreign policy while he is getting hammered in the capitals of UK, Poland and Israel in the next few days. Just thinking. They are going on offense, so we have to find a soft underbelly, kick them good, double them over and then push them out of the ring with offensive G-2 on our side. Right now, it is just bubbling out of Japan. LOL.

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